Michael Levine

American biologist

Michael Levine is an American developmental and cell biologist at Princeton University, where he is the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and a Professor of Molecular Biology.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Michael Levine (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 5, 1955.¹

About

Levine previously held appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University. He is notable for co-discovering the homeobox in 1983 and for discovering the organization of the regulatory regions of developmental genes.

From Wikipedia’s article on Michael Levine, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Princeton UniversityBoard member Jul 2015 to now¹⁸

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley³

Career

Occupation: biologist.¹⁰

Since 2015Director, Princeton University^{4 8}
Since 2015Worked at Princeton University^{4 9}
1988 to 1990Professor, Columbia University^{4 7}
1986 to 1988Associate professor, Columbia University^{4 6}
1984 to 1986Assistant professor, Columbia University^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at University of California, Berkeley⁴

Professional relations

Levine cites as a significant influence his instructor Fred Wilt (taking his developmental biology class "was probably the single most galvanizing experience I had in terms of defining my future goals"), and cites fellow scientists Eric Davidson, Peter Lawrence and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard as "mentors [and] friends... over the years".

On choosing to become a research biologist, he described some family pressure to become a doctor ("Coming from a modest background, particularly a Jewish family, the pressure to become a doctor was intense"),

Fellow biologist Sean Carroll said of Levine, "Mike's work has done for animal development what the work on the lac operon and phage lambda did for understanding gene regulation in simpler organisms... [Those] two big discoveries had a very large conceptual significance for developmental biology and by extension for evolutionary biology."

From Wikipedia’s article on Michael Levine (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

BornMar 5, 1955, Los Angeles^{11 12}
CitizenshipUnited States¹³
ResidenceBerkeley¹⁴

Awards

2015Edwin Grant Conklin Medal¹⁵
2009Wilbur Cross Medal^{15 17}
1996NAS Award in Molecular Biology^{15 16}

Sources

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WikidataMichael Levine on Wikidata
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WikipediaMichael Levine on Wikipedia
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WikidataMichael Levine: education, on Wikidata
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WikidataMichael Levine: Worked at University of California, Berkeley, on Wikidata
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WikidataAssistant professor, Columbia University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataAssociate professor, Columbia University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataProfessor, Columbia University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataDirector, Princeton University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataMichael Levine: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataMichael Levine: place of birth, on Wikidata
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Wikidataplace of birth, as reported by American Men and Women of Science
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WikidataMichael Levine: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataPrinceton University, Board member